Category: Content Marketing for Freelancers

A Year Into Freelancing, Still Struggling to Get Clients

A fledgling freelance photog writes: I am writing this because I can’t sleep atm. It’s almost a year ago that I made the jump to kickstart my dream as a freelance photographer. So I began, calling up the magazines and business I really wanted to work for and booked some small successes in the beginning. Then, I tried a new approach of offering small businesses a free shoot. I started to make as much personal work as I could and promote them on Instagram. I also started going to business meetings where (small) business owners would meet to network and chat. This went surprisingly well

John Morris November 26, 2019

The Biggest Mistake Freelancers Make When Creating Content

Content is one of my “Big 3” for getting new freelance clients. It’s also my preferred method because it can scale infinitely and it gives even brand new freelancers a shot at getting clients (one great piece of content can be all you need to get started). The problem is a lot of freelancers focus on the wrong things when creating content. They start to think of themselves as a blogger or a YouTuber or a podcaster. And, they start looking at what other bloggers, podcasters and YouTubers are doing and try to emulate that. The problem with that is

John Morris July 12, 2019

Where can I promote my Fiverr gigs so that I can get more projects?

Everywhere. There’s no one place that’s going to be a magic bullet. The trick is promoting your stuff on a bunch of different places and that adding up to something significant. Blogging, YouTube, podcasting, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… You get the point. Of course, just blasting out a link to your Fiverr gigs isn’t going to get much attention and will likely get you banned or blocked in a lot of places. So, what you need is what’s called “2-step marketing”. This comes from direct mail advertising. Instead of sending a long-form sales letter to a bunch of people via

John Morris June 27, 2019

GIVEAWAY: 1-Year Free Skillshare Membership

Hey everyone! To celebrate the launch of my new course(content2clients.com), Skillshare has given me a free 1-year membership to their site (normally $99) that I can give away to ONE of you. So, I’m running a contest over on Instagram.⠀ If you’re not familiar with Skillshare, they’re an online learning platform similar to Udemy or Lynda. But, with Skillshare, you pay a monthly fee and get access to all of their courses. It’s like the “Netflix for learning”.⠀⠀Anyway, if you win this contest, you’ll get a full year of membership which gives you access to all the courses on the platform

John Morris June 25, 2019

NEW COURSE: Turn Content Into Clients – Content Marketing For Freelancers

My latest course, Turn Content Into Clients, is now live. Here’s the details on what’s in it: When I first started freelancing, I had no idea how to get clients. No plan for how to grow my business. I didn’t know what worked and what didn’t. I took any client I could get, worked on projects I had no passion for, worked with clients I couldn’t stand and was terrified month to month: “Where will the clients come from?” “Will I make enough to pay my bills?” “Will it always be this stressful?” And then, I discovered content marketing. And,

John Morris June 24, 2019

The simple secrets to high-paying freelance clients

What makes clients willing to pay $5,000, $10,000 even $20,000 and up for your services? Download and install my mobile app and I’ll show you. It’s free. Just click the button below:

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John Morris

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